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Wet Scraped Brain Tanning Buckskins at Farm Camp

All photos were taken at Devil's Gulch Ranch youth camps and adult workshops.

 

Skining

First Cuts

Students using there fist to remove the skin   Removing hide with fist not knife

Fleshing the deer skin

 

 

 

 

Fleshing
Using an egg to determin proper alkalinity  

Bucking

Floating an egg to determine proper concentration of hard wood ash, Then soak hide until hair slips

Bone skraper for removing the grain from the deer skin

  

Traditional bone scraper

 

useing a bone scraper for graining the skin for buckskin in farm camp

  

 

Graining

graining buckskin    

 

 

drying the skins  

Dry skins

rehydrating the buck skin  

Re-hydrate
removing the membrain from the skin  

 

 

Membrane

rehydrating the buck skin  

Rinse

wring  

Wring

   
 

 

Open up the skin
Soaking skin in brains  

Dress

Soak in brains

 

Wring
 

Soften
   
 

Smoke

Glue into a sack

 

 

Openig the skin with twiggs

 

Plugging holes

 

Cool punky fire

 

Moving hide over the smoke

 

Maintaining a cool smoke

  Getting close
 

Finished skins

    Brain tanning book
     
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